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Artist...: VA
Title....: Ordinary Angel
Label....: Macmeanmna
Cat.No...: SKYECD38
Format...: CDDA
Genre....: Celtic
URL......: http://www.gaelicmusic.com
Tracks...: 14 Grabber..: EAC
Size.....: 84.22MB Encoder..: LAME 32bits version 3.98.4
Playtime.: 00:50:42 Quality..: avg. 219kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
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1. Michael Marra - Voyage 3:58
2. Blair Douglas - Peighinn na h-lodhlann 3:40
3. Rod Paterson - Flow Gently Sweet Afton 3:42
4. Peatbog Faeries - Green Fields Of Rossbay & Dunmore Lassies 5:32
5. M Marra & The Cauld Blast Orch - The Homeless Do Not Seem To 3:15
Drink In Here
6. Jennifer Forrest & her Scottish Dance Band - Dr Stephen & 3:02
Mrs Sheila McCabe
7. Donnie Munro - A Mhαiriad ╥g 3:11
8. Eilidh Mackenzie, Brian ╥ hEadhra, David Boag & Brendon Eade 4:08
- An Ath-Dhoras
9. J Forrest & her band - The Atholl Highlanders/Calliope 2:35
House/M≥rag's CΦilidh/The Boys Of Ballymore
10. Arthur Cormack & Ingrid Henderson - Calum Sgαire 3:35
11. Dr Angus MacDonald - Seudan a' Chuain/Chloe's 2:48
Passion/Nighean na Caillich
12. Ingrid Henderson & Iain MacFarlane - A' Chaileag Bheag/The 4:36
Broken Reed
13. Anne Martin - An t-Oighr' ╥g 3:59
14. Michael Marra - Chain Up The Swings 2:41
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50:42 (min)
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Ordinary Angel is an extraordinary CD. Extraordinary firstly because of the
quality of performers and performances it features. The list of artists who
contributed tracks to this compilation sounds more like a roll call of
Scotland's finest performers. Extraordinary also because, for a compilation, an
unusually high proportion of its tracks were specially recorded for this CD.
Extraordinary too because the CD is to celebrate the all too short life of the
eponymous æOrdinary AngelÆ, and to raise funds for an establishment which did
so much to provide her with more time than the illness she had would normally
allow.
Sheila and Stephen McCabe grew up in Airdrie but since 1996 had been living
with their three young children in the Isle of Skye. In 2002 Sheila was
diagnosed with a rare form of liver cancer to which she succumbed, after an
extraordinarily brave struggle, in Spring of this year. She was only 41. The
skills of the Liver Unit at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary provided Sheila with
hope, strength and, above all, time which she otherwise might not have had. In
recognition of this, Stephen began to plan the production of a fund-raising CD,
and Ordinary Angel is the outcome of his efforts.